Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections

Dissertations & theses

Print copies of theses and dissertations for the School of Earth Sciences are located in the Branner Earth Sciences. They are bound in red, shelved alphabetically by author and located in the stacks closest to the Stanford Geospatial Center. Many dissertations written after 2009 are available digitally in SearchWorks.

Find other Stanford dissertations and theses

To search for a Stanford dissertation, do a general search in SearchWorks, and then limit to Thesis under the format options on the left side of the screen.

Most Stanford dissertations written between 1989-2009 are available as PDF's from Proquest. These can be accessed directly from Dissertations & Theses@Stanford, or from a link in the Searchworks record for individual dissertations. Dissertations written after 2009 are available digitally in SearchWorks.

Find dissertations and theses from other universities

The Dissertation Abstracts database provides indexing doctoral dissertations accepted by U.S. and Canadian institutions since 1861.